Everyone knows something is very wrong here. We feel it, even if we cannot put a name on it.

We’re seeking answers… but first, we are trying to ask the right questions.

As two people who found themselves on a path of discovery, we have each bumped up against the same wall around us – we are told the world is a certain way, and that we must act a certain way, and that things must be in proper order.

But we have found that the table is rigged. Our perceptions are skewed, our illusions used for deceptive ends, and the true nature of life has been veiled from the people. It has been kept, and hidden, and secretly progressed.

In contemporary times, the meaning of technology has dawned upon us much more slowly than its products have taken over our busy lives. Updates in the understanding of science have informed these tools and developments, and fine tuned the mechanisms of control. It is much greater than just economic, consumerist, political or feudal.

Traditional goals of mental dominance over inferior peoples by the ruling elite, and programs of social control have now infused with the technological means of achieving it.

In through the eyes, understanding the central nervous system, the components of the brain, and the language of neuron and the patterns of thought. All of this and more has been achieved. The rules have been hacked, bent and broken. Science, wielded by technocrats, has changed the rules, and it is time that the people know.

Melissa and I have been pouring through stacks of old books, academic papers and journals to take away an impression of how it all happened, a sense of the specifics behind the larger goals.

What it all boils down to is a technical control over reality, over information, and over the behaviors that make up human and animal life.

Those who interject all of this talk with line in the sands defense of “free will” need not despair – even the most atheistic neurologist cannot explain the physical mind – there is only the physical brain. The mind is its own entity, the keyhole between this life and the spiritual, or of a timeless dimension, if you prefer.

However, our physical world can be manipulated, the impressions can be altered, skewing opinions, frames of the world, and the decisions that we base upon our accumulated knowledge, and the stimuli that push us into action at a moment’s notice.

The image at the top of this page is just one single concrete reminder that the scientists of the 20th Century toyed with controlling human/animal behavior through direct manipulation of the brain.

In this experiment circa 1962, scientists used high frequency electric stimulation of a certain center of the brain to put the cat to sleep – resulting in a rapid shift of brainwaves that dramatically altered behavior.In 20 seconds or less, the above cat went from alert/neutral to fast asleep. That is power worth reflecting upon. But does anyone ever discuss it?

This will be expressed in our film "The Minds of Men," and in numerous posts, videos and discussions in the years to come. That film bears fully upon the "smart" transhumanist world we are about to enter today.

Obviously, things have advanced tremendously since the the mid-20th Century – and today’s gadgets can do any number of things.

Aaron and Melissa Dykes (formerly Melton) created Truthstream Media to figure out what in the hell is really going on around here.

Co-founder of Truthstream Media, Aaron Dykes is an investigative researcher and video creator with over a decade of experience in uncovering the secretive and often nefarious that gravitates around power. Together with his wife Melissa, Aaron has traveled across the country in search of threads tied to political intrigue, black ops, the military industrial complex, the weaponization of science, a hidden history of eugenics and population control, unethical human experimentation and the quest to control the physical mind that remains ongoing and little known. Aaron has been part of hundreds of videos and interviews on a variety of important topics across the spectrum of geopolitics and conspiracy, news and olds.

Melissa Dykes is the other co-founder of Truthstream Media, and a passionate voice for common sense and sanity in a world plagued by a corrupt matrix that has been patched over reality, leaving a world of naive people herded by technology, and cut off from their own history. She has focused her investigative research and video production on issues ranging from transhumanism and cybernetics, ersatz food, EMF health, the smart grid, to CIA plots and declassified documents, the dark underbelly of covert experimentation, and the organized and systematic research into the brain down to its tiniest unit — the neuron. Melissa has written hundreds of articles, edited and produced countless research videos, and completed several documentary projects.